Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
Last year saw extensive flood damage throughout the Brisbane, Australia area. Damage estimates were in the billions of dollars. Infrastructure was destroyed, crops were submerged and the energy industry was impacted significantly. The toll on human life...
Friday, December 16th, 2011
On 1–2 December, 2011, the High Level Seminar on Hyperspectral Earth Observation convened in Beijing. Nearly 200 Chinese experts, graduate students and industry representatives in fields related to imaging spectroscopy attended the seminar. The seminar was divided into...
Thursday, December 15th, 2011
Indonesia is taking aim at infrastructure development. The country recognizes the serious shortage of infrastructure within it's borders and understands that services, including basic protection, transport and marine operations all depend upon fully functioning infrastructure. The government...
Friday, December 9th, 2011
Interoperability and data format exchange capabilities are important to further the sharing of scientific results and improving collaboration about the world's oceans. The World Ocean Council has embarked on the challenge of bringing together the many diverse...
Friday, December 2nd, 2011
Agricultural food production is linked closely to geospatial technologies. From an agronomic perspective, variable rate (VR) approaches are about much more than nitrogen fertilizer applications alone. Plants depend upon several macro-nutrients and micro-nutrients as well as other...
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
The number and severity of flood events throughout Asia has increased in recent times. Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Burma and Vietnam have all experienced major flood disasters recently. Integrated flood management is emerging as a comprehensive approach for...
